Gardening-plow



A'rnNr FEW? IVILLIAM CONVERSE GILMORE, OF LETTS, IOWA.

GARDENING-PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 538,774, dated May 7,1895.

Application filed January 3, 1895. Serial No. 533,768. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CONVERSE GILMORE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Letts, county of Louisa, and State of Iowa,have made a certain new and useful Invention in Gardening-Flows, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar lettersof reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Thisinvention relates to gardening plows, and has for its object toprovide a simple. cheap, readily constructed, and perfectly operatingdevice, in which the central shovel beam may be removed or verticallyadjusted, and the side shovel beams similarly adjusted, and the distanceof the same laterally from the center beam or from each other beregulated.

The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement ofparts hereinafter fully described.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a deviceembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is asectional .elevation upon the line a: 00, Fig. 2.

In the practice of my invention, I mount upon the end of the usual orotherwise formed handle A, a tongue A, having upon the end thereof anupwardly ranging segmental extension or head A beveled upon its edge,and provided with bolt-holes a, extending laterally therethroughrearward of and in alignment with the beveled edge thereof. This tongueis inserted into the forward fork B of a joint or coupling B, the endsof said fork being pivotally secured to the tongue by means of atransverse rivet b. Extending through the fork near the central portionof the joint is a removable bolt 0 having a out o thereon and passingthrough one of the bolt holes a in the segmental extension A normallythe lower, as shown in Fig. 1. Upon the rear of the joint B is formed asimilar fork B in which is inserted the center beam 0, carrying theshovel D, and having an elongated slot (1 in its forward end, throughwhich it is secured to the fork B by means of a rivet b, which said slotpreferably extends to the end of the beam in order that the same may beremoved. Ex-

shoulder O, in which is a bolt hole a, to receive the bolt 6therethrough when it is desired to adjust the center beam.

The side beams E, which carry the shovels D, have formed upon theforward ends thereof, at the inner side, disks f, which are inserted oneabove the other within the center of the joint B, and pivotally securedtherein by means of a bolt g, extending vertically through the joint andsecured by a not Upon the forward ends of the disksfare formed teeth f,with which the extension A of the tongue A engages, the beveled'edgethereof entering between the teeth. The shovels D. D, are secured uponthe ends of the several beams in any desired manner, and the same may befastened and regulated by means of the bolts or set-screws h.

The operation of the device will be readily understood from theforegoing description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, being substantially as ordinarily with devices of thischaracter; and when it is desired to elevate the beams upon the handle,the bolt 0 may be removed and re-inserted through one of the remainingbolt-holes a. The height of the center beam 0 is regulated by insertingthe bolt 6 either through the main portion thereof or through thebolt-hole a in the projection G, and by removing said bolt, the centerbeam can be thrown forward, where but two shovels are desired, as incovering seeds or cultivating both sides'of the row at the same time.This beam may also be disconnected or wholly detached from the joint, topermit the attachment, in its place, of a pair of ordinary fenders toshield the plants. When the bolt 0 is withdrawn, the extension A can beremoved from engagement with the teeth f, and the angle of the beams E,or their distance from the-center beam 0, adjusted independently oruniformly a distance of one or more teeth, whereupon the tongue is againinserted between the same. By closing these two beams against the centerbeam 0, the various shovels are caused to form a single one of greatefficiency for f ur- (No Model.)

' C. J. & H. GREEN;

ROLLING MILL.

No. 538,775. Patented May '7, 1896.

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